Knot fold guiding necktie



March 27, 1956 L. P. BURTON 2,739,313

KNOT FOLD GUIDING NECKTIE Filed Oct. 8. 1954 72 5. l8 l2 ll n V II l2 kw l l 25 B F .j I .4. |3- j J United States Patent KNDT FOLD GUIDINGNECKTIE Linwood P. Burton, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Gladys E.Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application October 8, 1954, Serial No. 461,128

4 Claims. (Cl. 2146) This invention relates to an improved four-in-handnecktie, and one of its objects is to provide an attractive balancedV-shaped or triangular knot, which can be tied to prevent slipping, sothat the original setting of the necktie will remain throughout the dayto improve the appearance of the wearer.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a four-in-handnecktie with preformed side edges which automatically center the foldlines of the knot forming area of the tie, so that a neat V-shaped ortriangular shaped knot may be formed, with both ends of the tie disposedin a common plane, one behind the other, so that only the wider frontwing of the tie will be observed in looking at the wearer of the tie.

A furt er object of the invention is to provide a fourin-hand necktiewith diagonal side edge recesses on opposite sides of the knot formingzone of the tie, so that centered formation of the tie knot is madepossible to an unskilled person, and the two ends of the folded andknotted tie will neatly meet at a common level, with the narrower end orwing concealed behind the wider front end or wing.

A still further object of the invention is the construction of afour-in-hand necktie with means for locating the starting fold to makethe tie knot, so that a V-shaped or trianguluar knot will be produced bythe conventional interlooping of the necktie band, and the resultingknot will be neat and well balanced along its upper and bottom edges andguessing and time consuming experimenting will be avoided.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a tie of thefour-in-hand type with guides formed on the opposite side edges of thetie band, which will enable any unskilled person to correctly fold andloop the tie band to provide a neat V-shaped or triangular knot withends in equal level positions.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprisescertain new and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements ofparts, clearly described in the following specification and fullyillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view showing the tie in its completed condition on aperson.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tie, enlarged, showing the knot formingarea of the wider front wing of the tie.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the entire tie, on a reduced scale.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the knot forming area of the tie,showing a modified fold guiding construction.

Fig. 5 is a front view of the completed V-shaped or triangular knot,with the neck band of the tie and the front wing of the tie shown brokenaway for convenience.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view, on a reduced scale, showing how the knotforming operation is started against the recessed fold guides of theknot forming area of the tie.

Fig. 7' is a similar view showing the next step of forming the tie knot.

Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the third step of forming the tie knot.

Fig. 9 is a similar view showing the final step of looping the frontwing of the tie hand through the previously formed loop to complete thedress tie knot.

Many persons experience considerable ditficulty in making neat dressknots in conventional four-in-hand neckties, and make repeated trialsbefore forming a knot which will be acceptable.

They find that an acceptable knot may be formed but that the narrowerrear end of the tie may hand well below the wider front end, giving theappearance of careless dress to women and men friends, and lowering oneend of the tie well below the level of the belt line.

Various efforts have been made to simplify the knot forming operation,so that uniform results would be obtained in forming the dress knot, butnone of these efforts have been accepted as providing the necessarysolution for this difiicult problem.

To solve this problem of making neat tie knots and to arrange that thedraped ends of the tie will be in a common level position, I havedesigned a tie finished to produce self contained guides for startingthe knot folding operation, which will remain at all times regardless ofthe number of times the knot is formed, and which will not produce anyundesirable bulging of the completed knot, no forms being added to thetie to determine the knot formation.

Referring to the drawing, which illustrates the practical embodiment ofmy invention, It designates the body of the four-in-hand necktie, whichis made up of the wider front wing 11, the neck band section or portion12, and the narrower rear wing 13 of the tie.

The knot forming area of the tie is between the neck band portion andarea and the wider front Wing of the tie, at 14. The conventionalpractice of tie design and manufacture is to produce neckties withdiagonal or tapered side edges extending along the sides of the knotarea 14.

In the construction of the four-in-hand necktie embodiment of myinvention, a diagonal recess or fold guide 15 is formed on one side ofthe tie, and a similar diagonal recess or fold guide 16 is formed on theopposite side of the tie, but at a diagonally lower level.

Each recess or fold guide comprises a main diagonal edge 17, and a shortdiagonal or transverse edge 18, disposed at a sharp angle to thediagonal edge 17. The long diagonal edge 17 of the fold guide 15 extendsfrom the outer edge 19 of the tie upwardly and inwardly to join with theshort diagonal edge thereof. The long diagonal edge of the fold guide 16extends downwardly from the outer edge 20 of the tie and inwardly tojoin with the short diagonal edge of said fold guide.

The lower and outer portion of the long diagonal edge of the fold guide15 projects into a common plane with the upper and outer portion of thelong diagonal edge of'the fold guide 16, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the long and short diagonal edges of each fold guiderecess meet at a sharp corner angle, but in Fig. 4 I show concave curvededges forming the meeting lines of the long and short diagonal edges ofthe fold guide recesses, at 21 and 22.

In both cases the longitudinal edges of the necktie in the knot formingarea 14 thereof, are cut-away or inset, to provide loop fold lines 23and 24, diagonally across the nectie'band, so that the inset fold guideedges become the top and bottom edges of the tie knot when it iscompleted.

The dress knot 25 of the tie is of neat V-shaped or triangular shape,and the adjacent upper portion of the wider front wing of the tie formdecorative folds at 26, which add to the appeal of the completed dressknot The design of the knot forming guides is such that the user isinduced to start the looping of the tie only along the diagonal foldguides, so that equal edges will appear at the top and bottom of theknot. When this is done the ends of the tie will drape to a commonlevel, with the narrower rear wing of the tie neatly concealed behindthe wider dress or front wing of the tie.

No additional material is used in carrying out the invention, the tieitself providing the necessary fold guides and these guides disappear inthe final formation of the dress knot of the tie.

In forming the dress knot the tie is placed around the neck within thecollar of the shirt, in the usual manner, and the wider front wing ofthe tie is placed across the narrower rear wing of the tie, so that thediagonal fold guide edges will be aligned to the longitudinal side edgesof the narrower rear wing of the tie. The front Wing is then woundaround the narrower rear wing, so that the diagonal fold edges of thefront wing will be crosswise of the narrower rear tie wing, and thefront wing is then looped through this basic loop formed around the reartie wing, and is extended downward to a frontal display position inadvance of the draped rear wing. By tightening the neck band the knot isclosed so that the diagonal side edges of the tie appear at the top andbottom of the completed knot, with nothing to reveal their functionaluse in the formation of the finished knot.

Due to the fact that the diagonal fold guides are located in calculateddistances from the ends of the tie, the front and rear wings of the tie,which drape below the triangular or V-shaped knot so formed, will bebalanced, with their lower ends in a common horizontal plane, and thenarrower rear wing fully concealed behind the dress front tie wing.

When the dress knot is finally formed the area of the flexible band ofthe tie between the long diagonal edges of the fold guiding recesses isestablished as the front wall of the dress knot, with one of thesediagonal side edges constituting the upper edge of this front wall ofthe knot and the other diagonal side edge constituting the lower edge ofthis front wall.

By locating one short diagonal or transverse edge 18 opposite theoutermost end of the longitudinal edge 17 of one inset recess, andlocating the other short or diagonal or transverse edge 18 opposite theoutermost end of the other inset recess, the dress wing of the tie isconfined between these transverse recess edges, and thus held againstlongitudinal shifting when being knotted, so that a neat tie knot isformed, with the length of the knot modified by the longitudinal sideedges of the inset recesses.

With the dress knot thus formed and established both ends of the tieband will drape in balanced relation to each other and the shirt of thewearer, with both ends disposed in a common horizontal level or plane,one behind the other.

Having described my invention I claim as patentable:

1. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band formed with afront dress wing and a rear wing and a connecting neck band, the frontdress wing having an inset recess on each side thereof having L-shapedouter .4 edges providing long diagonal longitudinal side edges for therecesses and short diagonal shoulders therefor, the short diagonalshoulder of one recess being located in opposition to the outermost endof the long diagonal side edge of the other recess and spacedlongitudinally thereof, the longitudinal side edges of the recessesbeing disposed in approximate parallel relation to each other, the dressknot being formed by winding the dress wing around the other wing withthe inset recesses forming guides for the development of the dress knot,with said diagonal longitudinal side edges forming the top and bottomedges of the completed dress knot.

2. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band having a neckbandportion and pendant wings outwardly theseof, one of the pendant wingshaving an inset recess on one longitudinal edge thereof, said insetrecess having a longitudinal edge disposed in diagonal relation to thelength of the flexible band and extending from the side edge of the bandinwardly and provided with a minor edge portion disposed in diagonalrelation to said longitudinal edge, and thereby providing a recessincreasing in depth from one end thereof to the other end of the recess,the dress knot of the tie being formed by wrapping said wing with saidinset recess around the other wing, so that the recessed wing willengage said diagonal edges when fully wrapped around the other wing anditself, whereby the longitudinal edge of said recess will form one endof the completed dress knot of said four-in-hand necktie.

3. The construction set forth in claim 2, said pendant wing having aninset recess on each of its longitudinal edges, the short diagonal edgeof one such recess being located in opposition to the outer end of thelongitudinal edge of the other recess and advanced longitudinallythereof, whereby one longitudinal edge of one inset recess will form oneend of the dress knot when it is formed and the other longitudinal edgeof the other recess will form the other end of the dress knot whenformed.

4. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band having a frontdress wing and a rear pendant wing and a connecting neckband portion,the front dress wing having an inset recess on each side thereof, eachrecess being of approximate L-shaped form to provide a longitudinal edgeand a transverse edge, the longitudinal edge of the recess starting atthe longitudinal edge of the band and extending diagonally inwards andthe length of the transverse edge limiting the maximum depth of therecess, the transverse edge of one inset recess being located indiagonal relation to the outer end of the longitudinal edge of theopposite inset recess, whereby each transverse recess edge forms a guidefor controlling the location of the dress knot and to prevent endwisedisplacement of the dress knot formed by wrapping the dress wing aroundthe other wing and against said longitudinal recess edges, saidlongitudinal recess edges forming the upper and lower ends of the dressknot when completed.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS599,177 Guild Feb. 15, 1898 1,917,651 Krakower July 11, 1933 2,153,683Walsh Apr. 11, 1939 2,679,050 Dzus May 25, 1954

